Perhaps it’s no surprise given the amount of snowflakes we’ve been watching fall on Ann Arbor, but January was officially a record-setting month by the time it finally ended.

Ann Arbor received a total of 37.8 inches of snow in January, a new record for the month, according to Dennis Kahlbaum, staff meteorologist at the University of Michigan. That’s 21.4 inches more than normal, he said.

The previous record snowfall in January was 36 inches in 1999, Kahlbaum reported.

The month was also much colder than normal. The average temperature was 17.7 degrees, which is 7 degrees colder than normal. That’s good enough to make January 14th coldest January on record, but still much warmer than January 1918, when the average high was 11.4 degrees.

On average, there was 8.6 inches of snow on the ground about 3.7 inches more than normal. The record for deepest average snow depth is 18.2 inches in 1887.

Kahlbaum also reported January was the 17th wettest January on record, with 3.48 inches of precipitation falling during the month. That’s .89 inches more than usual.

According to the National Weather Service, the Ann Arbor area will get a slight break from snow early this week. The forecast calls for clear skies on Monday before a 50 percent chance of snow on Tuesday.

By Tuesday night, two to four inches of new snow could fall on Washtenaw County, according to NWS.